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This is the 1st in a series of 8 books that I've read many times during my childhood.Used to get them at the library every summer, sometimes I read them in order, sometimes not, it didn't really matter, I enjoyed them whatever way I read them.To be honest, it wasn't reading, it was sharing the adventures with the characters, they did get into some predicaments, ones we all dreamed about getting into ourselves as kids in real life! I got the boxed set for Christmas when I was 40, I read them again. Again when I was 50 and yes, I'll read them again someday. They bring me back to endless summer days of innocence, leading a sheltered, protected life and turning pages and getting lost in exciting adventure with my 4 friends. I think revisiting these books from time to time has had a hand in keeping me young at heart.

Someday is here! Read The Island of Adventure, yet again!I don't think I'll ever out grow this book, or the rest of the series. Not as long as I have a sense of adventure in my heart!

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Enid Mary Blyton (1897 - 1968) was an English author of children's books.

Born in South London, Blyton was the eldest of three children, and showed an early interest in music and reading. She was educated at St. Christopher's School, Beckenham, and - having decided not to pursue her music - at Ipswich High School, where she trained as a kindergarten teacher. She taught for five years before her 1924 marriage to editor Hugh Pollock, with whom she had two daughters. This marriage ended in divorce, and Blyton remarried in 1943, to surgeon Kenneth Fraser Darrell Waters. She died in 1968, one year after her second husband.

Blyton was a prolific author of children's books, who penned an estimated 800 books over about 40 years. Her stories were often either children's adventure and mystery stories, or fantasies involving magic. Notable series include: The Famous Five, The Secret Seven, The Five Find-Outers, Noddy, The Wishing Chair, Mallory Towers, and St. Clare's.

According to the Index Translationum, Blyton was the fifth most popular author in the world in 2007, coming after Lenin but ahead of Shakespeare.